Thank you so much for this! I was cracking my head about this issue, thinking it had something to do with the framework I use – symfony. But then I’ve seen your article and – bing – got it!
The only addition though, in my case I have production and development enviroments on different servers, so I could’t hard-code absolute path. Insead I use php function getcwd() to get absolute path to current directory:

this is a good one, I had that problem, and now it’s solved, but the include image is way too tiny, even though I put the with and size, I have to zoom at 400% just to see that the image is there, that’s not normal

Thanks Guyz. Great help.

This was a great help to me as well. My web directory is set up differently, and it took a couple tries to get it work. Also, one thing that’s good to remember is DPI. PDF is a print file, and by default in the config file set to 150 DPI. Web DPI is 72. I had to increase all image dimensions by 48% in order to get them to the same dimensions.

Thanks! Had the same issue, in 0.5 you could put the http:// address in for an image but not the beta!

I solved the problem by defining the variable base_path:

$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->set_base_path(“../path/images/”);
…

with

…

with –img src=”image.png”–

the name of image only.

Thanks Guyz. Great help.

If I even attempt to put an img tag in the code, it will not generate the pdf. If I comment out the code with the img tag, it generates the pdf.

Does anyone know why?

Actually you can add the tag in html.. and it will work in the pdf generation too.. For this
1. Either the image should be in the local server and must be referenced like src=”/www/var/..”..
2. Or it can be an ordinary url like “http://google.com/sdf.jpg”… But for this one to work you should enable the DOMPDF_ENABLE_REMOTE to true.. which will be false by default….
Change define(“DOMPDF_ENABLE_REMOTE”, false); to define(“DOMPDF_ENABLE_REMOTE”, true);

thanks for this hint

Stephan

Thank you thank you thank you thank you

Good job! Saved me a load of time.
THANKS!

@Geo Paul:
Thanks for the hint.

Gr8 hint.. It saved my brain from just popping out…. I had the images working well in my local system but not on the server… Using getcwd() for the current directory path helped me a lot….

Bless You manish =D, i own you a beer

I also had this problem and solved it by using absolute image paths instead of relative ones.

For example, instead of:

,

I changed the html to

Thank you, this post probably saved me a lot of frustration.

Thanks… I was pulling the little hair I left out until I found this page!

Geo Paul you are a Legend!

Thank you guy ! seems I own you a beer too !

I am using dompdf to generate the PDF file and swift to email it to my email address. I am able to generate the PDF file with all the information and I get it in my email but I am having issues with images. For some reason I can’t get the images to appear in my PDF file, I get a small red X.

Here is what I have for my code:

$val)
$post->$key = trim(strip_tags($_POST[$key]));

// Check for blank fields
if (empty($post->name) OR empty($post->dob) OR empty($post->age) OR empty($post->address) OR empty($post->city) OR empty($post->state) OR empty($post->zip) OR empty($post->email) OR empty($post->phone) OR empty($post->name2) OR empty($post->cell2) OR empty($post->name4) OR empty($post->phone4) OR empty($post->signature))
$error = true;

else {

// Get this directory, to include other files from
$dir = dirname(__FILE__);

// Get the contents of the pdf into a variable for later
ob_start();
require_once($dir.’/pdf.php’);
$pdf_html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

// Load the dompdf files
require_once($dir.’/dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php’);

$dompdf = new DOMPDF(); // Create new instance of dompdf
$dompdf->load_html($pdf_html); // Load the html
$dompdf->render(); // Parse the html, convert to PDF
$pdf_content = $dompdf->output(); // Put contents of pdf into variable for later

// Get the contents of the HTML email into a variable for later
ob_start();
require_once($dir.’/html.php’);
$html_message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

// Load the SwiftMailer files
require_once($dir.’/swift/swift_required.php’);

$mailer = new Swift_Mailer(new Swift_MailTransport()); // Create new instance of SwiftMailer

$message = Swift_Message::newInstance()
->setSubject(‘FODT Registration Form’) // Message subject
->setTo(array(‘my email [email protected]‘ => ‘Registration’)) // Array of people to send to
->setFrom(array(‘[email protected]’ => ‘FODT’)) // From:
->setBody($html_message, ‘text/html’) // Attach that HTML message from earlier
->attach(Swift_Attachment::newInstance($pdf_content, ‘DiveRegForm.pdf’, ‘application/pdf’)); // Attach the generated PDF from earlier

// Send the email, and show user message
if ($mailer->send($message))
$success = true;
else
$error = true;

}

}
?>

Hey, thanks for that tip… i was struggeling for 1 hour with this and forgot to check the google… your article was on 1st place … Thank you very very much